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Posted by berlianta 21 hours ago

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields(deepmind.google)
299 points | 124 commentspage 2
brkn 19 hours ago|
I would be interested to see how exactly the agent helped. How was it used, where did it lead to the given improvement and in how far would it have taken a human to come to the same solution.
j2kun 19 hours ago||
The blog post has many links to papers and preprints discussing this exact question.
Lt_Riza_Hawkeye 17 hours ago||
The CANOS arxiv link says absolutely nothing about AlphaEvolve, Gemini, or LLMs. It seems to use purely traditional ML models. If AE did in fact write a quick script to test different configurations in order to optimize the results, they don't seem to have bothered to write about it.

I can't read the Nature paper about DeepConsensus, but from the summary, it doesn't really explain what role AE had in improving DC. It would be nice to be able to read about what role it actually played, and whether it used traditional or novel methods of performing it

armanj 16 hours ago||
seems like `karpathy/autoresearch` on steroids
nmitchko 17 hours ago||
A fantastically simple solution to improving algorithms, I wish I had this years ago in activation engineering: https://blog.n.ichol.ai/llm-activation-engineering-an-easy-f...

How do I access AlphaEvolve?

Yokohiii 17 hours ago|
This is just a flex post. Be a billion dollar company or get out.
charleshn 10 hours ago||
They'll likely make it available at some point, but for now one can use OpenEvolve [0] which is not quite as good but should be a good start to use the same LLM-driven evolutionary framework.

[0] https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve

petra 8 hours ago|||
There's also: https://github.com/inter-co/science-codeevolve and https://www.turintech.ai/
Yokohiii 9 hours ago|||
Your link seems completely unrelated. Why would you suggest that?
charleshn 9 hours ago||
Not sure what you mean: OpenEvolve is an open source implementation of AlphaEvolve: https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/openevolve
Yokohiii 37 minutes ago||
Thanks, wasn't really apparent on the github page.
pilooch 18 hours ago||
AlphaEvolve couples map-elites with LLMs. It's an key step in machine learning, in the vein of DQN for reinforcement learning.

AE brings diversity from the genetic algorithms community to large scale optmized deep learning and RL models.

It is a mandatory step for moving forward. The approach is clean and simple, while generic.

The only caveats is the per optimization problem definition of the map élites dimensions. But surely, this will get tackled somehow over the next few years.

If you don't know about map-elites, go look up Jean-Baptiste Mouret' s work and talks, it's both very interesting and universal.

arian_ 17 hours ago||
We went from 'AI will replace programmers' to 'AI will help programmers' to 'AI writes code while other AI reviews it' in about 18 months. At this rate the humans are just providing the electricity.
baq 20 hours ago||
RSI is here on the hardware level and on software level. Sprinkle with a couple algorithmic breakthroughs and results are nigh unimaginable.
agluszak 16 hours ago||
Meanwhile Gemini CLI has been broken for months!

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/22141

kaueg 14 hours ago|
Welcome to HN @berlianta; TIL green username === new user in HN; Stories posted by new users are called noobstories [1];

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

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